S.O.S. Titanic (1979) on Netflix
On the Titanic's 1912 maiden voyage, John Jacob Astor IV travels in first class. Lawrence Beesley and Leigh Goodwin meet in second class, and Irish immigrants board in steerage.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb6.2/101,708 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
Trailer
Plot summary
First-class passengers aboard the Titanic's 1912 maiden voyage include John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Talmage Force, his new wife, a May-December couple, along with their friend Molly Brown and honeymooners Daniel and Mary Marvin. Benjamin Guggenheim is returning to his family following an affair that caused a scandal. In second class, schoolteachers Lawrence Beesley and Leigh Goodwin slowly become interested in each other. In steerage, eight Irish immigrants board at Queenstown, among them Katie Gilnagh, Kate Mullens, Mary Agatha Glynn, Bridget Bradley, Daniel Buckley, Jim Farrell, Martin Gallagher and David Charters. During the crossing, Martin Gallagher becomes drawn to an unnamed Irish beauty.
Cast
- Nicholas Daviesas Alfie King, Lift Attendant
- Matthew Guinnessas Father Byles
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- S.O.S. Titanic was greenlit by EMI Films' Bernard Delfont while his brother Sir Lew Grade was making a film based on Raise the Titanic. Grade asked his brother to stop production, but Delfont refused as it was too late.
- The real ship TSS Manxman was filmed for external shots and appears in the film as the R.M.S. Carpathia in some opening sequences and as the R.M.S. Titanic in a few shipboard scenes.
- Scenes on the exterior decks and in the ship's wheelhouse were filmed aboard a retired 1930s British ocean liner docked in Long Beach, California, standing in for the Titanic.
- S.O.S. Titanic was the first Titanic film to be filmed and released in color, not counting the 1964 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
